THE SERPENT KING

I don’t want to hate it here

“A stupid question.”

“It’s saying we’re all born with seeds in us. And if we let them see the sunlight and air, they’ll grow through us and break us. Like a tree growing up through a sidewalk.”

Dill: don’t have much to say today, thinking

“Travis stood there for a second, watching him, the TV reflected in his father’s eyes”

“Out of the corner of his eye, he watched Lydia drive. The edges of her mouth. The way they turned up in an ear-perpetual smirk. How her lips moved almost imperceptibly as she unconsciously sang along with the music.”

Lydia: because you look like your heart stepped on a lego

“Some fall in glorious ways. On green fields of battle as old warriors surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty. Some fall crawling in the dirt of Forrestville, Tennessee, in the dark, impossibly young and alone for no good reason at all”

Dill: he’d have had a lot of fun tonight